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wsj.com
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Is there a grand Western conspiracy to tar India's image and diminish its global standing? Government officials and some pundits seem to think so, going by how they responded in recent months to the environmental group Greenpeace and to a BBC documentary about rape in India.

wsj.com
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If you're looking for a snapshot of India's hapless response to radical Islam, then look no further than Bombay-based cleric Dr. Zakir Naik. In India, the 44-year-old Dr. Naik-a medical doctor by training and a televangelist by vocation-is a widely respected figure, feted by newspapers and gushed over by television anchors.

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Will Narendra Modi sweep away the cobwebs of socialism that have long held back India and replace them with a market-oriented approach to the economy? Going by his government's first full budget, presented to Parliament Saturday by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, one thing is certain: Those who hoped for a sharp and unapologetic departure from the past were too optimistic.

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Will a crushing defeat in a high-profile state election derail Narendra Modi's economic reform agenda even before it has gathered steam? That's the question India faces after the populist Aam Aadmi Party swept to power in Delhi this month with one of the largest majorities ever seen in an Indian state election.

aei.org
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry weren't the only notable absentees at Sunday's unity rally in Paris. India too failed to send a high-level representative to honor the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shootings. In a decidedly tepid show of support to a grieving fellow democracy, New Delhi sent its ambassador.

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On the face of it, the Delhi election on Saturday ought to evoke a yawn rather than a rush of adrenaline. After all, the state accounts for less than 2% of India's population, and its government does not even control its own police force.

foreignpolicy.com
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For many Indians, their country's most exciting politician is neither the firebrand Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi nor the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty scion Rahul Gandhi, but Arvind Kejriwal, a mustachioed, bespectacled former tax inspector whom most people had barely heard of just three years ago.

blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Barely a year ago, most foreign policy pundits would likely have agreed on one simple prediction: the election of Narendra Modi as Indian prime minister would set back relations with the United States, and by extension with the West more broadly. Instead, the opposite has happened.

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On Monday President Barack Obama becomes the first American president to preside as the chief guest at India's Republic Day parade, an annual spectacle that celebrates the country's democracy by showcasing its cultural diversity and military might. Before Mr. Obama leaves New Delhi Tuesday, the U.S.

aei.org
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Each of us probably had our favorite part in President Obama's State of the Union address the other night. Personally, I'm delighted to learn that Obama is hard at work battling the "bankrupt ideology of violent extremism." You might be wondering what exactly the president means by this formulation.